The United States Food and Drug Administration has called for public comment on the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

Cigar Rights of America, as a adult consumer based organization with members in all fifty states, is concerned with the approach the Center for Tobacco Products will take with regard to premium hand made cigars, and hereby calls all its members to post their personal comments on theFDA’s Regulations website.

As a guideline for your comment, please be sure to include the following:

MAIN POINT:It is clear that premium hand made cigars are not a focal point of the statute nor the intent of the US Congress, but the overarching authority over all tobacco products gives us pause and concern. It is also clear that the authority granted to the US Food and Drug Administration by Congress did not have premium hand made cigars as a target of further regulatory burden.

SUPPORTING POINTS:
1) Premium hand made cigars are an adult focused product, in terms of their use, appeal and economic attraction, with the marketing and advertising of the product being principally in adult lifestyle oriented publications, hence not in any manner appealing to children.

2) It is also worthy to note that premium hand made cigars are internationally considered an art form, that allows for adults of legal age to truly appreciate the attraction and use of the product.

3) Premium hand made cigars are products made and sold principally by family oriented businesses. Therefore, additional regulatory burdens should not be imposed upon these backbones of American small business.

4) It is also noteworthy that many in the adult cigar user population enjoy flavored cigars, and because they are enjoyed by adults, and marketed and sold only to adults, that they should not receive the scrutiny of the agency.

SPECIAL NOTE TO CRA MEMBERS:
Please compose comments in your own words and DO NOT copy the text above. Your comments will have a greater impact if they are personally composed.

This kind of outreach bolsters my confidence in CRA. Like I have said before, I joined this organization with some reservations about their effectiveness. CRA is communicating with its members some but can be doing so more often through email. Even so, score one for CRA.

Comments

2 Responses to “The FDA Wants Your Comments on Tobacco Regulations”

DON rEDISH
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April 12th, 2011 5:52 pm

i USED TO THINK WHAT WE HEARD WAS THE TRUTH. FIRST, THEY GAVE US FACTS NOBODY CHECKED. THEN CAME THE NEW TAXES. MY FEELING IS THIS, CIGARS AND PIPES ARE DIFERENT THAN CIGARETTES. YOU DON’T INHALE. YOUR LUNGS HAVE NO TASTE BUDS. WHAT GETS ME IS WE KEEP GETTING STEPPED ON AND SAY AND DO NOTHING. I WOULD BET THERE IS NOT A SMOKER OF ANYTHING IN THE FDA. IS THE DECK STACKED? FUNNY, THEY TALK OF SMOKERS RIGHTS. WE HAVE NO RIGHTS. AND WHEN THE HYPOCRITES IN THE GOVERNMENT WON ON THE TOBACCO SETTLEMENT, NOBODY USED THE MONEY FOR WHAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD.

I would be willing to bet that there are at least a few smokers in the FDA and probably nearly all of them are hypocrites (they support smoking bans while smoking all the time). Whatever the case, it infuriates me to no end and it looks like it infuriates you as well. Thank you for your comment.